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| | The Spirit of Things - 13/02/2000: The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Peter Abelard's own account of it, as a relationship of pure lust, was undoubtedly influenced by the terrible punishment he endured at the hands of Heloise's uncle, who had him castrated. |
 | | Abelard decides to go into a monastery and Heloise decides perhaps very much under the influence of Abelard, to go and take vows in a convent, the convent where she had been brought up. |
 | | And Abelard says, 'Well look, take over this oratory, this retreat that I've established, and I can't hold together.' He gives it to her, it becomes, it is in fact dedicated to the Holy Spirit, which is a key notion in Abelard's thought. |
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